Pilot Study Complete

To my knowledge, no one else has used The Women Who Knew Him as a Bible study, therefore, the reason for my title. My thanks go out to Beth C., Beth M., Chela, Cynthia, Patricia, Tiffany and Tina for their willingness to sort of be guinea pigs along with me in order to see how well the stories of these women lend themselves to actual Bible study.   

I believe we were not disappointed and I thank these ladies for their input into additional discussion questions. At this point I will not be revising the book but will make these additional discussion questions available to anyone interested in using the book as a springboard for Bible study and getting to know these women of the first century AD better.

I also have a suggested order of reading the stories. In the book I listed the stories in a somewhat chronological order but personally prefer reading/studying the women’s stories in a more heterogeneous arrangement ending with Mother Mary’s story rather than beginning with it.

In that way, if a study starts in the Fall, Mary’s story would come about Christmas time. Or, if the study began in January, Mary’s story would fall around Easter, again a very appropriate time to be looking at her life.

Hopefully, this will give you somewhat of a framework if you should decide to lead a Bible study looking into how Jesus ministered to the women of the first century AD and an increased faith that He will do the same for us today in 2015 AD. Awesome to consider!!